Serious crimes in Canton under Kuontintang administration have never been so many as Canton newspapers have reported, according to an explanation by a Bolshevist, He says that sometimes tone hold-up has been reported by several press correspondents whose details differed from one another and on more than one occasion he had known of one ease reported as two. That the Bolshevists are holding Lup persons all the time is certain: ly a mistake. On January 6, from 9 o'clock in the morning to 3 in the afternoon, only 10. hold-ups were reported, and these 10 did not take place within one single police district, but from four, the Ist, 2nd, '8rd, and the bth, For six bott not one hold-up was reported 4th district that day, In that six hours, only six Reds were arrested for holding-up persons.
Canton, in 1924, had 135 fires, destroying 1,361 houses, Some 666 houses were' destroyed during the Rod massacre of Canton merchants, on Black Wednesday, October 15 last, when the Kuomintang Bole shevist set fire to many places in onder to force the Merchants Volunteers to retreat. Of the other houses destroyed, some 446 were at Honam, the southern section of the twin ty of Canton, Snow to the depth of nearly six inches fell at Namyung and Chihing, northern Kuangtung, on Jane vary 1 and 2, when a number of Chinese Bolshevists. of Dr. Sun Yateson's Red Army died from lack of warm clothing and proper food, according to reports from those places, Schools Taxed by Reds 7
Kuomintang Bolshevists in Cane ton have decide to force private schools also, to pay taxes on their premises in order swell their war chest. The application of the Young Ching School to have the decision withdrawn has been rejected, the past. when had a' gov ernment, the authorities for a time went so far ax to provide oth money and land to ti of learning doing well, Tu those days schools were not taxed all, The Superintendent of Education in Canton, on behalf of Foo Man ness Collexe, an institution of rade, is asking Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Bolshevist agents to exempt the school house from being sold as property belonging to the public, in consideration. of the good work' the college is doing and the possibility of having to close the school altogether when the teachers ant their students are ousted from premises, which, it is really belong. not to the pub-Vic, but to the ward committeeman of the' section of Canton known as the Sze Mei, The school's being endowed by income is derived from the four temples round that section,
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